Reply #12: How many more pounds of gun laws do you want? [View All]

[DonP]

Buying a gun in Daley's Illionis is not as easy as he makes it out to be.

First you have to apply for and get a FOID card from the Illinois State Police before you can as much touch a gun or ammunition in this state. That's about a 6 week wait while they do a background check on you, if you're lucky.

Then you have to find a store to sell you a gun. That's a real problem if you live in Chicago or Cook County no gun store can or will sell you a handgun of any kind or a so called "assault" weapon and that includes most modern semi-auto shotguns.

Plus, they are not cheap by any means. A decent quality pump shotgun, even used, is still going to be $300+ and a handgun will start at $600 or better for a semi-auto and maybe $500 for a small off-brand revolver.

Then you have to buy it and fill out a form 4473 for each gun you want to purchase. On the form you are asked, under penalty of perjury among other things, if you have ever been treated for a mental disorder or been placed under involuntary hospitilization.

You then have to pass another background check, the NICS check where they clear you by checking all police, FBI, Interpol and other State and local police records to determine if you have ever committed a felony or had an order of protection filed against you. If you have been committed to an institution at any time in your life this is where it will show up, even if you lied on the form 4473 and FOID card application.

Then, after you've cleared the NICS check, you have to wait from 1 day for a shotgun or rifle to 3 days for any handgun (again, assuming of course you move out of Chicago and Cook County) to pick the gun up at the dealers, who keeps a record of your purchase.

Or, you can go to selected street corners and buy or rent one from your friendly neighborhood gang banger. It's a little riskier, but a lot shorter on the paperwork and records, unless he decides to turn you in to the cops for a reward after he rents you a cheap gun.

How much more difficult do you think we need to make it for honest people to buy a gun before the criminals start to be even a little disturbed by your new set of rules?

With 22,000 laws already on the books for gun control, what is your new proposed law(s) that will somehow make a difference to criminals and the mentlally unbalanced?

Heck, why not just start the on the formal repeal of the second amendment. All you need is 2/3 of the states, super majorities in both Houses of Congress and a Presidential signature and it's done!

That should be easy.